Berlin,
DE (2026)
To listen is to be at the encounter with an other
Group exhibition and public program
Bardo Projectspace
with Helga Elsner Torres and Vicente Barriga
Curating a research-based project that centers listening as a primary method for navigating themes of displacement, migration, and belonging. Developed by a collective of migrants from Latin America and Southern Europe, the project addresses the specific experiences of migrant, queer, and Indigenous practices operating transnationally. The exhibition features works by Ale Borea, Javier Vargas, Eli Wewentxu, and Kika Echevarría, with activations by Ale Hop, Dracaena, and Laura Robles.
The project challenges dominant media narratives that reduce migration to a visual disruption of the Stadtbild (cityscape). Instead, it proposes a sonic counter-cartography that registers the productive "noise" of marginalized communities. By focusing on sound as a political gesture, the curation explores how displacement is sonically negotiated and transmitted.
The title omes from a text by Daniela Avellar, “An Amplified Echo, a Carbonated Resonance,” in Border-Listening/Escucha Liminal – Volume 2, ed. Alejandra Luciana Cárdenas (New York: Contingent Sounds, 2021),